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My deck is now 17 years old. It's made of treated wood. The deck is a 12x16 covered screened deck with a connecting 12x8 exterior exposed deck for my grill. The builder built it by building the whole deck and then adding the screened porch at one end. So the deck boards run under one wall of the screened porch. I have a few deck boards on the exposed part of the deck that I want to replace. That means I am going to need to cut the deck boards somewhere along their length in order to remove the section of deck board. How to do it? After doing a bunch of internet searching, I'm leaning towards the cutting the deck board flush with the joist, installing a nailing cleat/sister board to the joist and then installing the new deck board. Bless my builder, he was good at nailing the center of the deck boards. So if it were to make cuts at the center of the joist, I'd need to remove the old nails first. I won't have to with the nailing cleat method.
Here is a link to the description of the repair method. Click on arrows on Installation Tips.
http://www.familyhandyman.com/decks/replacing-deck-boards/view-all#step1
Is this an okay way of doing it? How would you do it?
Here is a link to the description of the repair method. Click on arrows on Installation Tips.
http://www.familyhandyman.com/decks/replacing-deck-boards/view-all#step1
Is this an okay way of doing it? How would you do it?